05:42 - BARFLY!!! Now that is a GOOD film about alcolism unlike that terrible thing called Leaving Las Vegas. 03:17 - Oh I thought you meant anyone who says that should understand that it is an opinion, not that it is obvious that it is one. Now I feel dumb again 01:53 - -I was agreeing with Tanner lol 01:42 - Can't wait for the full length, it's gunna beat me into the ground [] 01:39 - Exactly 01:37 - Yeah any statement like 'xx is the best ever' is obviously gonna be an opinion. Young The Giant Crystallized Free Download there.

Shouldn't really need clarification 01:28 - I am not going to put 'In my opinion' behind everything I state, I'm not Erik.

After a long period of lack of interest in music, particularly metal, I find this CD for like eight bucks at my local CD store. I listened to a little bit of Gehenna a couple years ago and remembered thinking they were pretty good. After listening to this album beginning to end while walking around outside at night, I remember what black metal is. Chess Position Trainer Key there. Gehenna's style of black metal is so in touch with its roots but still so fresh. It is undeniably evil sounding, and just flat out aggressive in some parts, but there is still that oddly soothing and mystical feel about it that I just love with black metal.

Jan 11, 2010. Country: Norway Genre: Black (early), Black/Death Metal (now) 01. Lord of Flies 02. Shairak Kinnummh 03. Vinterriket 04. A Witch Is Born 05. Through the Veils of Darkness 06. The Mystical Play of Shadows 07. The Eyes of the Sun 08. Dark Poems Author My Comment When it come to 1995,. Gehenna - Seen Through the Veils of Darkness (The Second Spell). Segundo full lenght de los black metaleros noruegos quienes nos vuelven a presentar esta gran pieza de oscuridad metalera. Tracklist: 1. Lord of Flies 2. Shairak Kinnummh 3. Vinterriket 4. A Witch Is Born 5. Through the Veils of. Following their earlier reissues of Bal-Sagoth's fantasy inspired black metal album 'Battle Magic' and the avant-garde black metal of Sigh's 'Infidel Art', Cacophonous Records turned their attentions to the icy blasts of Gehenna's 'Seen Through The Veils Of Darkness.' The Norwegian band's 1995 debut.

I'll start with the vocals: HOLY SHIT. Raw and violent are good words to describe it. But tame and restrained would work as well. The shrieks seem so effortless that you don't get that, 'I’m trying really hard to be METUHL' type vibe. Plus there is so much control over the vocals, higher shrieks to lower growls, with a real nice ebb and flow to it. Definitely some of the best black metal vocals I’ve heard.

The guitar work is as usual what is at the heart of the album. Plenty of tremolo picking and distortion, but certainly not excessive. There is a nice variety of fast and mid-paced (never really slow), and it never comes off as mindless shredding with the treble all the way up and thinking that you’re a visionary. The guitar work is as brilliant as it can get for a black metal album of this type, but its real strength is that it works with the other instruments and never 'hogs the stage' as it were.

For instance, I can actually hear the bass on this album. I will remind you again that this is a black metal album. The bass is audible (can't get over that) and sounds great. It adds thickness to the music.

That seems like a good word. But unlike a lot of albums that just have the bass there, this one has it complementing the guitars very well. I will say that though it is audible throughout the album, it never really deviates from complementing the guitar work.

So it is still in its traditional role, but it's audible, and on a black metal album we don't really want to hear funky bass licks. Just a nice touch. The keyboards are the driving force for the mystical aspect of this album, and you can almost sense them pulling you out of a segment of more aggressive riffing.

This album's keyboards are great not only because of the more atmospheric aspect of the chords as we usually see, but they are also thrown into some of the faster parts as well. The keyboard breaks in 'Shairak Kinnumh' are an awesome example.

I guarantee they'll get stuck in your head. The drums are typical black metal.

Some blasts here and there with plenty of fast paced hammering away. There isn't anything real special to point out about them. Except that the production of them is very good, especially when compared to the usual wet cardboard effect of lower-fi black metal. In fact, the production overall is very good.